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Hoke, Nymphomaniac Charity Organizer, accused of sexual harassment


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2018 Mar 16, 11:07pm   778 views  0 comments

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Hoke describes Defy as 'a second chance for people with criminal histories by offering classes for current and formerly incarcerated people.' The program operates in 15 prisons and also teaches classes online.

The firm is also something of a redemption for Hoke also after she made some transgressions of her own.

Hoke was running a business skills-training program for Texas prisoners in 2004, but five years later she was banned after she was discovered to have had sexual relations with four program graduates.


She started anew by founding Defy in 2010, making a fresh start for herself in New York.

Three months ago, the company brought on Roger Gordon as its new president who had chaired a nonprofit that employed more than 100 formerly incarcerated people, but just weeks into the job Gordon began to have concerns about Hoke's conduct and suggested she may have made up numbers about the success of the program.

One complaint surrounding Hoke was over a complaint brought by a female former employee who said Hoke 'reached her hand up the employee's skirt twice at a company party.'


'The employee signed a nondisclosure agreement prohibiting her from disclosing the incident or the existence of the NDA to anyone except the CEO, her husband or the COO.'

One allegation against Defy is that lineups where prisoners and investors meets are more or less staged to generate donations and are repeated several times over for different groups

On another occasion, a former Defy client, Kenneth Maxwell, sued Hoke in 2015 alleging he was forced out of the program over his 'refusal to consummate a personal and sexual relationship' with her. The lawsuit was later dismissed.




Another female employee told The Daily Beast Hoke sexually harassed her during a business trip in 2014 forcing her to share a bed.


'When we checked in to the Vertigo Hotel, the reserved room only had one king-size bed, which Catherine and I both occupied despite my repeated suggestions that I sleep on a cot,' the female former employee wrote.

The former Defy staffer allegedly quoted Hoke telling her 'she 'doesn't usually like blondes, but that I am really hot.' She also wrote that Hoke said she and her husband 'would try to 'gross each other out' by imagining a former employee masturbating, and that Hoke was sad she had to share a room on the trip 'because she wasn't able to bring her toys along.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5511183/Prison-reformer-runs-nonprofit-accused-sexual-assault.html

If you really think this rich cat who gets $$$ from Google and the Koch Brothers needs to share a room.
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